Manufacture of sanitary antiseptic mats.



UNITED STATES Patented March 28, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

MANUFACTURE OF SANITARY ANTISEPTIC MATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 785,838, dated March28, 1905.

Application filed November 14, 1903. Serial No. 181,243.

To LLZZ wit/mt it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN P. SUToR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Scarsdale, I/Vestchester county, State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Sanitary Antiseptic Mats, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of a very porous fibrousabsorbent material composed of wood-pulp, ground straw, or felt, or amixture of them, into a bulky coherent mass formed into rolls andrendered antiseptic by suitable chemicals to be used as a flooring forthe sustaining of cuspidors, spittoons, and other expectorating devicesand also for use in front of bars in saloons, counters, and stands inpublic places of resort and for miscellaneous use in the privatehousehold.

The object of my invention is to sterilize, disinfect, and render inertat the moment of contact the offensive germs that produce infection andcontagion at the local source of pollution, Which generally arises fromthe accumulated filth that is stored up in the surroundings of vesselslocalized for that purpose.

In carrying my invention into effect I employ a mixture of common shoddyand woodpulp or wood-pulp and ground straw, or either of them alone,after being reduced to a pulp and mixed in a paper-makers engine bywellknown mechanical means and afterward run through rollers to aboutone-eighth to onequarter of an inch thick or thicker, if desired. Thematerial is run out as porous and bulky as possible with very littlesizeor none at all, the coherency, porosity, and absorbent quality therebybeing retained, with due attention being given to a limited pressure onthe sheet while passing through the rollers. After the rolls are driedthey may be cut up into any desired size and sprayed with a solution ofcorrosive sublimate or a solution of chlorid of zinc, resorcin,naphthalene, formaldehyde, thymol, carbolic acid, salicylic acid,cresylic acid, beta-naphthol, or any of the known efiicient antiseptics;but where I resort to spraying I prefer to use corrosive sublimate or afive-per-cent. solution of formaldehyde. The shoddy or wood-pulp mixturemay also be rendered effective by adding from five to fifteen per cent.of oxid of zinc in the engine before the pulp goes on the Fourdriniermachine or by a suitable percentage of the above-mentioned antisepticsbeing added in the engine, with the exception of metallic salts, such asmercury and zinc, which would attack the wire on the sieves and destroythem. This matting may be given any desired color conveniently by addingany of the usual tinctorial matter to the material in the engine.

I am aware that a patent has been issued to Iaolo Matcovitch and AntonioGrossich, No. 426,933, April 29, 1890, (92 Fabrics,) for certainimproved processes for the manufacture of antiseptic paper for use asbandages in surgical operations and for hygienic and preservativepurposes wherein the antiseptic paper is constructed of seventy-live(75) per cent. linen and twenty-five (25) per cent. cotton and is firstbleached white by sodium or potassium peroxid and afterward purified andrendered asceptic by repeated washings in hot water, alcohol, andchlorin water, and I hereby disclaim any identity, either in the natureor object of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

An antiseptic mat, or matting, composed of woodpulp manufactured intothick sheets of one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch thick, renderedbulky, porous and absorbent by proper treatment in the drying andpressing of the same, and also treated with antiseptics during theprocess of formation.

In testimony whereof 1, JOHN P. SU'IOR, have signed my name to thisspecification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 12thday of November, 1903.

JOHN I. SUTOR.

Witnesses:

ROBERT E. Gno'rn, MAX OPPENI-IEIMER.

